#django filebrowser# problems and solutions

 

1. IOError: decoder jpeg not available

How to fix:

1. clear PIL packages (or pip uninstall pillow)

rm -rf /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/PIL
rm -rf /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/PIL.pth

or 

pip uninstall pillow

　　

2. install required packages

ubuntu:
apt-get install libjpeg-dev
apt-get install libfreetype6-dev
apt-get install zlib1g-dev
apt-get install libpng12-dev

centos:
yum install zlib zlib-devel
yum install libjpeg libjpeg-devel
yum install freetype freetype-devel

 

3.download Image and install

wget http://effbot.org/downloads/Imaging-1.1.7.tar.gz
tar xzvf Imaging-1.1.7.tar.gz
cd Imaging-1.1.7
# if the sys is x64, you must also do this: edit the setup.py file and set:
# centOS:
TCL_ROOT = '/usr/lib64'
JPEG_ROOT = '/usr/lib64'
ZLIB_ROOT = '/usr/lib64'
TIFF_ROOT = '/usr/lib64'
FREETYPE_ROOT = '/usr/lib64'
LCMS_ROOT = '/usr/lib64'
# Ubuntu:
TCL_ROOT = '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu'
JPEG_ROOT = '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu'
ZLIB_ROOT = '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu'
TIFF_ROOT = '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu'
FREETYPE_ROOT = '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu'
LCMS_ROOT = '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu'

4.  create soft link

ln -s /usr/include/freetype2/freetype/ freetype

5. Python setup.py install

python2.7 setup.py install

　　

2. IOError: broken data stream when reading image file